Becky Mushko

Where There's a Will: A collection of short stories for young people, contains the following stories: "Last Wish," "You Ain't Buck-Nekkid & You Got Enough to Eat," "Spelldown," "You Don't Ever Know," "Insult to Injury," "Sharing the Load," "Little Meg Reddingoode: a Blue Ridge Red Riding Hood," and "Where There's A Will."

Roanoke City teacher Kay McGrath, contributed study guides geared to the 6th grade Virginia Standards of Learning for English. Franklin County teacher Charlotte Web contributed a 3rd grade study guide for the title story.

Where There's a Will is published by Infinity Publishing.

Paperback; 92 pages. ISBN 0-7414-2537-8
Available from the General Store in Moneta, Blue Lady Books in Rocky Mount, Ram's Head Books in Roanoke, and from the author. Also available from Infinity Publishing. The price is $10.95.

The Girl Who Raced Mules & Other Stories: A collection of thirteen award-winning short stories. Most have been previously published in Blue Ridge Traditions, Thema or Virginia Adversaria.

The Girl Who Raced Mules & Other Stories is published by Infinity Publishing.

Paperback; 132 pages. ISBN 0-7414-1665-4
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Also available from Infinity Publishing, or bamm.com. The price is $11.95.

Peevish Advice: A three-year collection of Becky Mushko's "Peevish Advice" humor columns from the regional publication, Blue Ridge Traditions. Ida B. Peevish of Ida's Salon of Beauty and Live Bait Shop in the little town of Rock Bottom, US of A, tells folks what they need to know, where to go, and what to do. Art teacher Mary Ann Reynolds designed the book cover.

Peevish Advice is published by Infinity Publishing.

Paperback; 91 pages. ISBN 0-7414-0729-9
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Patches on the Same Quilt: A series of related stories told by members of six generations of a Franklin County, Virginia, family. A young boy's wish for a horse changes not only the direction of his own life but also the lives of his children, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter. As his grandmother, the quilt-maker Gillie Anne, says, "We might not be cut from the same cloth, but we're all patches on the same quilt." Each character's story adds a patch to the pattern of interconnected lives.

Patches on the Same Quilt won the Smith Mountain Arts Council Fiction Contest in 2001. SMAC generously underwrote a third of the cost of printing the first thousand copies. Patches on the Same Quilt is now in its second printing.

Patches on the Same Quilt was self-published.

Paperback; 173 pages. ISBN 0-9708129-2-2
Available from Blue Lady Books in Rocky Mount. Also available from the author. The price is $14.00.